Portrait biographical record of Stark county, Ohio Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . J(^n Jr//m^ SECOND FUES/DENT. * Ilk. ^ ^^Uii;. 15^74^^ ^\| OHN ADAMS, the second^ ^ President and the first Vice-President of the United States,was born in Braintree (nowQuincy ),Mass., and about tenmiles from Boston, Oct. 19,1735. His great-grandfather, Henry.^dams, emigrated from Englandabout 1640, with a family of eightsons, and settled at Braintree. Theparents of John were John andS
Portrait biographical record of Stark county, Ohio Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . J(^n Jr//m^ SECOND FUES/DENT. * Ilk. ^ ^^Uii;. 15^74^^ ^\| OHN ADAMS, the second^ ^ President and the first Vice-President of the United States,was born in Braintree (nowQuincy ),Mass., and about tenmiles from Boston, Oct. 19,1735. His great-grandfather, Henry.^dams, emigrated from Englandabout 1640, with a family of eightsons, and settled at Braintree. Theparents of John were John andSusannah (Boylston) Adams. Hisfather was a farmer of limitedmeans, to which he added the bus-iness of shoemaking. He gave hiseldest son, John, a classical educa-tion at Harvard College. Johngraduated in 1755, and at once took charge of theschool in Worcester, Mass. This he found but aschool of affliction, from which he endeavored togain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to thestudy of law. For this purixise he placed himselfunder the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. Hehad thought seriously of the clerical professionbut seems to have been turned from this by what hetermed the frightful engines of ecclesiastical coun-jils, of diabolical m
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